Salsa, frijoles molidos y leche, cuando son líquidos y pueden humedecer otras cosas, [se consideran líquidos de tal manera que] se [hacen] primarios [es decir, de un nivel de impureza de primer grado, si se vuelven impuros]. Si se congelan, son [capaces de volverse] de segundo grado [como los alimentos en general]. Si [cuando era impuro] se volvieron a ablandar [en líquido], si hay exactamente el equivalente de un huevo [en volumen] de ellos, son puros [ya que perdieron su estado de impureza en estados cambiantes]; si hay más del equivalente de un huevo [en volumen] de ellos, son impuros, ya que una vez que salió la primera gota [y se suavizó en líquido] se volvió impuro por el volumen [restante] del huevo [que es suficiente cantidad de alimento para convertir la impureza, y el resto del alimento, a medida que se ablanda, se vuelve impuro por ese líquido impuro, ya que los líquidos de cualquier cantidad pueden volverse impuros; pero cuando hay exactamente el volumen de comida de un huevo, la primera gota que se ablanda en líquido no se vuelve impura, ya que no queda una cantidad suficiente de comida para hacerlo impuro, ya que los alimentos solo se vuelven impuros y dar impureza cuando hay al menos un volumen de huevo de ellos].
Bartenura on Mishnah Tahorot
הרוטב והגריסין שהן משקה טופח (the broth/juice/jelly of meats, and the pounded beans which moisture dripping on them/running liquid) – they are so moist when they have on them enough to moisten other objects.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Tahorot
Introduction
We have learned previously that impure liquids always have impurity in the first degree. Only food can have second and third degree impurity. Our mishnah deals with liquids that then become solids.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Tahorot
הרי הן תחילה -that they are considered as a liquid.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Tahorot
Sauce, bean-mash and milk, when in a condition of fluidity, are unclean in the first degree. While they are in their liquid state, these liquids, if they are defiled, have first degree impurity.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Tahorot
קרשו הרי אלו שניים (if they became congealed, they are second-degree [of ritual impurity]) – for since they congealed they are considered like edibles that came in contact with liquids.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Tahorot
If they turned solid they become unclean in the second degree. When they turn into solids, they lose their first degree impurity but they still retain second degree impurity. This is because as it solidified, the solid part was touching the liquid part and the liquid conveyed second degree impurity to the solid.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Tahorot
חזרו ונמוחו כביצה מכוון טהור (if they once again dissolved – if they are the volume of an egg exactly, it is pure) – that the status of food left from them and the status of liquid descended upon them, and their defilement blossomed when they were changed, but there isn’t to this liquid anything that will defile it, for when the first drop departed, the food was reduced from that of the size of an egg’s bulk, and less than an egg’s bulk it doesn’t defile others, but more than an egg’s bulk it is impure, as the reason is explained [in the Mishnah] , for when the first drop departed , that drop was defiled with an egg’s bulk of impure food, and when all of it dissolved afterwards, the drop returned and defiled everything.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Tahorot
If they again melted: If their bulk was exactly that of an egg, they are clean. But if it was more than the bulk of an egg they remain unclean, for as soon as the first drop issued forth it became unclean by contact with an egg's bulk. If they melt again, they are now no longer food, but they have lost their original liquid impurity. If there is exactly an egg's worth then it is pure. This is because as soon as one drop melted the solid part was less than an egg, and food needs to be the size of an egg to convey impurity. So the drop remains pure, as does the rest. However, if there is more than an egg, then when the first drop melts it is defiled by the solid part. That drop will subsequently defile all the following drops and the whole thing will be impure.
